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From the often hilarious social media account @shortandsnarkyrowing, The Short and Snarky Guide to Rowing and Coxing is funny, irreverent, and something your coxswains will actually read. This is totally unlike other coxing books. Written by two coxswains-turned-coaches with almost four collective decades of high school, college, club, and masters coxing experience and hundreds of races under our belts, we give you the lowdown on coxing for mere mortals that real rowing books would never dare. From novice juniors to senior masters, whether you are a coxswain, a rowing coach who works with coxswains, or a sweep rower who has to take the occasional turn coxing, we promise you’ll learn something and we promise you’ll laugh out loud. We cover it all from the very first practice to crossing the line in the championship race, and everything in between. We help coaches figure out how to finally get through to their coxswains, share coxing stories and insight it took us decades to learn, and include tons of photos of how to do all things rowing—both right and wrong—taken from the coxswain seat perspective. And we provide straight, candid answers to the most frequently asked questions from our coxing clinics. This is a resource that every coxswain, coach, and rowing club should own.

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I've only been rowing for a little over a year, and never coxed until very recently. Basically, I had no clue what I was doing, so I bought this book to help me figure it out so I don't crash a boat. Let's be honest, I'm not ever going to be going to the Olympics or anything, but I want to keep my crew and my equipment as safe as possible. I LOVE this book. First, there are PICTURES! Tons and tons of pictures! I'm a very visual person, so getting to see what something should look like, and the step-by-step breakdown of it has been enormously helpful. Second, the book is broken down into short segments, so if I only have 10 minutes, I can study over a few things pretty quickly. Third, (and possibly the most important), the book is well-written, funny and holds my attention, which isn't easy to do. I knew if I got some bland instruction book, I would ultimately never read it. I've bought this book for myself, and have bought more copies as gifts.

As a freshman boys rowing coach I can say with certainty that this is a MUST READ AND MUST HAVE! Not only did I read it and laughed out loud but I insisted every coxswain on our team needed to buy it and read it!Let's be honest, most books on rowing are a bit.. Dry.. Ironic right?Not this one! As a rower turned coach I knew the basics of coxswains terms but when our team lost our "coxswain coach" I realized we were in trouble. I went to coxswain clinics to help become our new source of information which was very helpful and informative but I needed to be able to reach our kids on a deeper level, a visual learning level..being able to hand a novice or even our experienced coxswains an easy to read, informative and funny book that contains all they need has become invaluable! THANK YOU SHORT AND SNARKY!

I coach for a club team, and this is exactly what I've been hoping someone would write for coxswains. We've got a club coxing manual, the coxswain encyclopedia, and the old drill cards, but this is FAR and away better than anything else I've seen out there for guidance on coxing. We've bought several now for our experienced masters coxswains and have made this required reading for all of our new coxswains. This is highly readable even for the juniors, and covers steering, what they should say, and most importantly safety. Already this fall I've spent less time getting the new coxswains up and running, and they seem to have a much better idea of what is going on--at least relative to years past. Highly recommended for juniors and masters coaches.

I am a novice coxswain, this is my first year on the water and this book is so helpful! (and hilarious.) I constantly read this on my way to regattas and practices. It gives amazing tips on sprint races, head races, coxing vocab and lots of other things! This has helped me and my fellow coxswains throughout our first season. (This book was even with me while I was at Stotesbury Cup Regatta- where we places 5th over all in the Freshman Girls Final!.)

A must for Cox's and Coaches! ": Coaches are mostly rowers..they know little or nothing about coxing!"...say is all....I wish I had this when I was training cox's at our Washington State Club...It would have been really helpful. Peter Becker Level 2 US Rowing Coach

HILARIOUS start to book - epiomises xactly wots happened to me - i knew nothing - the rowers headhunted me as a dinghey & yacht sailor who is short with loud voice - plonked me in a long thin wooden fine rowing boat & i headed out if the creek to the river thames - stilk dont know wit u am going bt no one else will do the job.